Lucile Duplessis

Lucile Duplessis (18 January 1770-13 April 1794) was the wife of French revolutionary Camille Desmoulins. She was executed by the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror.

Biography
Lucile Duplessis was born in Paris, France on 18 January 1770, and she first became acquainted with Camille Desmoulins at a young age, when the older Desmoulins, ten years her senior, became an admirer of her mother. However, Desmoulins and Duplessis eventually fell in love, and they married in 1790. In 1794, she was arrested by the Committee of Public Safety for allegedly attempting to free her husband from captivity, and she followed him to the guillotine on 13 April 1794 during the Reign of Terror.